“ Falsity consists in the privation of knowledge, which inadequate, fragmentary, or confused ideas involve. Baruch Spinoza
“ It is true, no doubt, that this principle of the necessary unity of apperception is itself an identical and therefore an analytic proposition; but it shows, nevertheless, the necessity of a synthesis… Immanuel Kant
“ Is numerical equality (forced by the use of specific physical units) the same as conceptual equality? Of course NOT! Felix Alba-Juez
“ On the other hand, when we disown our beliefs, we lose touch with ourselves. We no longer know who we are or what we believe and neither does anyone else. Patty Houser
“ Irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible things together because both or all are necessary and true. Irony is… Donna J. Haraway
“ For the [innate] general principles enter into our thoughts, of which they form the soul and the connection. They are as necessary thereto as the muscles and sinews are for walking, although we do not… Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
“ The mind is not only capable of knowing [innate ideas], but further of finding them in itself; and if it had only the simple capacity to receive knowledge…it would not be the source of necessary truth… Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
“ The mind leans on [innate] principles every moment, but it does not come so easily to distinguish them and to represent them distinctly and separately, because that demands great attention to its acts… Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
“ Pure analysis puts at our disposal a multitude of procedures whose infallibility it guarantees; it opens to us a thousand different ways on which we can embark in all confidence; we are assured of mee… Henri Poincare
“ It is within science itself, and not in some prior philosophy, that reality is to be identified and described. Willard Van Orman Quine
“ The Bible is clear: Truth exists. It can be known. And when we ground our beliefs in it, we are rational. Patty Houser
“ Ideas generate action when they are believed regardless of whether they are true or not in our opinion Patricia Crone
“ That is what we are, what we do: nose a net, push push, a net that never exists. The knots in the mesh as strong as our own believing. Our own fears. Peter Heller
“ As an empiricist I continue to think of the conceptual scheme of science as a tool, ultimately, for predicting future experience in the light of past experience. Physical objects are conceptually impo… Willard Van Orman Quine
“ The desire to understand is almost synonymous with the desire to simplify, and it is closely bound up with the desire for certainty - for assurance. But, when we find we have over-simplified, this doe… Rupert Crawshay-Williams
“ Plato said that we are trapped inside a cave and know the world only through the shadows it casts on the wall. The skull is our cave, and mental representations are the shadows. Steven Pinker
